Right-Wing Fliers Claim Obama Is Anti-Christian

An evangelical group that claims to stand up for religious liberty is circulating fliers that attack President Obama for doing just that. Focus on the Family, a conservative religious organization that is running evangelical voter turnout for Mitt Romney, is mailing out to Iowans a flier that misquotes Obama as saying, “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation.”

Obama’s real quote, which has been evaluated by FactCheck.org, actually adds the word ‘just,’ and goes on to add more explanation:

Given the increasing diversity of America’s population, the dangers of sectarianism have never been greater. Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.

As Focus on the Family is usually the first to point out, freedom of religion is a founding principle for the United States. But that includes the freedom to practice a religion outside of Christianity, assuring religious minorities like Jews and Muslims that the US is not, in fact, a Christian nation.